Author: M. Travis Lane
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781989287262
Category : Canadian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Poetry. Women's Studies. In poems that could double as paintings, M. Travis Lane harnesses the brush strokes of language to form a bridge between the artist and natural world in A TENT, A LANTERN, AN EMPTY BOWL. This is work that sees "the reds/ that glitter in the shaggy firs,/ the yellow-mauves in shadowed snow,/ the orange-hatched pine tops quivering" and captures it all in vivid detail. A TENT, A LANTERN, AN EMPTY BOWL is a vital new collection from one of Canada's most important living poets.
Author: David Poyer
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1429984732
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Naval Commander Dan Lenson and his Tactical Analysis Group specialize in out of the box military assign ments. Comprising sailors, Navy SEALS, and civilians, the group investigates and defuses naval threats around the world. Dan and his team are assigned to "transform" a patrol craft squadron in the Red Sea into a leaner, meaner Navy. Mean - while, in northern Africa, drought and famine have brought a nation to the brink of civil war. When the United States decides on intervention to stabilize the region, Dan and his team become the point people for the humanitarian mission. When a charismatic young jihadist coordinates a ferocious insur gency against the U.S. presence, Dan and his team must kill him in order to save thousands of lives. With exciting action, espionage, and exotic locales, The Crisis asks bigger questions about our obligations to relieve the suffering of other countries, the risk of American lives to rescue foreigners, and the role of democratic government in nations with no central leadership.
Author: Annie Ross
Publisher: Talonbooks
ISBN: 9781772012361
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Pots and Other Living Beings is made up of poems with paired photographs, each describing an aspect of living in the postmodern, neoliberal age, with its promised and failed utopia, ruin, and dispossessions. The work comes from a series of 4000 photographs and binders full of notes, created during a research trip to the American southwest regarding the founding, making, dreaming, and proliferation of the nuclear bomb; thinking of the food, family farms, arts, schools, hospitals, we could have had, if our resources, imagination, time, and energy had been directed towards life, in all of his/her forms.
Author: Sean McGinty
Publisher: Clarion Books
ISBN: 0358380375
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 339
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High school senior Rainbow is trapped with three other teens in a game-like world that may or may not be real, in this darkly comic novel about identity, giving up, and finding the way home.
Author: Christine Blevins
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101560177
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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A tale of love and espionage from the author of Midwife of the Blue Ridge... She spies for General Washington, betrays the Redcoats and battles for America's independence... It's 1777, and a fledgling country wages an almost hopeless struggle against the might of the British Empire. Brought together by a fateful kiss, Anne Merrick and Jack Hampton are devoted to each other and to their Patriot cause. As part of Washington's daring network of spies, they are ready and willing to pay even the ultimate price for freedom. From battlefields raging along the Hudson, to the desperate winter encampment at Valley Forge and through the dangerous intrigue of British-occupied Philadelphia, Anne and Jack brave the trials of separation, the ravages of war and an unyielding enemy growing ever more ruthless. For love and for country, all is put at risk-and together the pair must call upon their every ounce of courage and cunning in order to survive.
Author: Nicole R. Fleetwood
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067491922X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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"A powerful document of the inner lives and creative visions of men and women rendered invisible by America’s prison system. More than two million people are currently behind bars in the United States. Incarceration not only separates the imprisoned from their families and communities; it also exposes them to shocking levels of deprivation and abuse and subjects them to the arbitrary cruelties of the criminal justice system. Yet, as Nicole Fleetwood reveals, America’s prisons are filled with art. Despite the isolation and degradation they experience, the incarcerated are driven to assert their humanity in the face of a system that dehumanizes them. Based on interviews with currently and formerly incarcerated artists, prison visits, and the author’s own family experiences with the penal system, Marking Time shows how the imprisoned turn ordinary objects into elaborate works of art. Working with meager supplies and in the harshest conditions—including solitary confinement—these artists find ways to resist the brutality and depravity that prisons engender. The impact of their art, Fleetwood observes, can be felt far beyond prison walls. Their bold works, many of which are being published for the first time in this volume, have opened new possibilities in American art. As the movement to transform the country’s criminal justice system grows, art provides the imprisoned with a political voice. Their works testify to the economic and racial injustices that underpin American punishment and offer a new vision of freedom for the twenty-first century."
Author: Alice Burnett Poynor
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1449750273
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 39
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It was a very cold winter in northwest China when a little beggar girl who could neither hear nor speak followed a rag-tag line of children into a large white tent. She fixed her eyes on the woman who was speaking and the bright colored pictures she showed. Gwa-gwa, whose name means Little Lonely could not know that one of those pictures was to change her life. Gwa-gwa is a real person; the missionaries are real, as are many of the details of the story. When at last she comes to a real home on Christmas Day, a day she afterward called her coming day, Gwa-gwa found some answers to the questions she couldnt even ask. What did the picture mean? Who was the Baby? And what did it have to do with her?
Author: Shannon Pemrick
Publisher: Shannon Pemrick
ISBN: 0998446467
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 878
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Everyone wants to be free. I’m no exception. I dream of the day when I no longer answer to anyone else. But to achieve that dream, I have to kill another. And we’re running out of time. Despite the support of countless new allies, things aren’t going according to plan. We’re waging a war with impossible odds. I’m falling for a dragon who’s promised to someone else. And the voice I’m hearing? She’s more important than I first thought. I’m losing track of what I’m fighting for. With everything on the line, failure isn’t an option. And if I make the wrong choice, it will doom us all. --- EXPERIMENTAL HEART (Complete Series) Destiny (#1) Pieces (#2) Secrets (#3) Exposed (#4) Surrendered (#5) Reborn (#6) --- Note: Like all of Shannon Pemrick's work, the Experimental Heart series contains strong language, violence, substance use, love scenes, and difficult situations.
Author: Royal Bouschor
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728305764
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315
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It’s a fast action-packed Western. Reincarnation comes at a heavy price when Wolfgang Beaumont, known as Wolf, agrees to accept the terms of the deal. His destiny is to fight evil in the Wild West in the 1880s and follow a quest that will be revealed to him. When Wolf questioned his guide how to find evil, he was informed this, “Don’t worry, evil will find you.” His trek from New Orleans to Montana is fraught with danger and deadly encounters and only his skill developed through intensive and continuing training and practice will hopefully sustain him. But for how long—and at what price?
Author: Saros Cowasjee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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